Your students can learn about and practice context clues with the worksheets, activities, and games found at this educational TabStart page. You will even find a video about context clues as well as comic books and a song!

Free Grammar Context Clues

Free Context Clues Grammar Test
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This test from the Sam Houston State University website allows students to check their understanding of what context clues are. When the student finishes this grammar quiz, they can click on a link at the bottom of the page to check their answers.

Free Vocabulary Development Mini-Unit
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This lesson plan from ReadWriteThink.org is an excellent resource for teaching students how to use context clues. This grammar lesson also goes one step further to enhance students' learning by covering the concept of semantic gradients.

Vocabulary Context Clues Lesson Plan
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This lesson from Montgomery College teaches students the four different types of context clues. After reading the lesson, students can click on the link "Practice Vocabulary" at the bottom and middle of the page to practice their ability to use context clues.

Free Context Clues Lesson and Practice
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This pdf document provides a clearly written and thorough lesson about context clues, covering the four different types. The lesson also includes plenty of practice opportunities to test your skills.

Interactive Inferential Context Clues Lesson Plan
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This lesson and activity presents an enjoyable way for students to learn about inferential context clues. Each page is written as if the speaker is talking directly to the person reading the text. At the bottom of each page, you can find a practice question and then a link to continue to the next page of the lesson.

Free Grammar Context Clues Fun and Games

Context Clues Video
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In this video from WatchKnow.org, the teacher explains how he learned unfamiliar words by reading comic books. The video is slightly pixelated but the content is great.

Free Context Clues Song
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Make sure you check out this song about context clues! You can play the entire song from the website, and there is a link to download a copy of the lyrics.

Cows Game
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This is an amusing game for 5th grade students to practice their context clue skills. This game is unique in that students need to determine the overall meaning of a sentence instead of simply finding a synonym for an underlined word. For every correct answer, an interactive cow is put back into the online corral.